Museum professionals' increased focus on visitors in recent years has been demonstrated by, among other things, the enhanced practice of evaluation and the development of ...

Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.

How can museums capture visitors’ attention? And how can their attention be sustained? In this important volume, leading visitor researcher and educational psychologist Stephen ...

Active Assessment for Active Science meets the needs of teachers faced with the task of assessing hands-on science.

What Makes Learning Fun? presents a set of tested principles and strategies for the design of museum exhibits, with concrete examples of design successes and failures drawn ...

The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage ...